Lost Plays Database

There are many people who contributed to the Lost Plays Database. This project originally started in the University of Melbourne, it then later moved onto the Nectar cloud, and is now hosted by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC and is now a Folger Resource.

https://lostplays.folger.edu/Main_Page

The Lost Plays Database was created so that scholars could have a place to go to share information about lost plays that exist and a place where scholars could then discuss more about these plays. This database has many different alphabetized pages that are organized by different sections of which plays can fall into. Along with that, there is a lot of information about where the plays may have come from and references to them as well, once you click on one play in particular. There are pages upon pages with many different types of plays stemming from the early 1620’s and ending in the late 1770’s. This database’s goal is to give people a resource where they can find plays that have been lost and or forgotten about as well a place to discuss these plays.

There are some requirements that would be needed to know before going onto this database. Some of which would include, knowing what the project is about and knowing how to go through the website and the various different pages that it has. This is a website that is rather simple to navigate through as there are many different tabs indicating exactly what information is where. But, knowing where it is you would like to go once on this website would be a good requirement.

Yes, there are different programs that could accomplish the same work, the same format, as the Lost Plays Database. One of them would be Wikipedia, with a similar layout as well as similar functions as a Wikipedia page, this is a program that could get the same work across as this project.

To learn and get the most out of the Lost Plays Database I would say that there isn’t too much someone would need to know before going onto this project. This is a project that is informational as well as interesting to just look around with no purpose in particular. Going around this website and seeing the information about plays that were lost is interesting within itself.